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Welcome
to the Alaska Injury Prevention Center's website. The Alaska Injury Prevention
Center (AIPC) is a non-profit corporation with a mission to prevent injuries to
the people of Alaska. We have a dedicated team including public health
professionals, a board of directors, and many volunteers from around the state.
AIPC supports seven safety teams:
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Motor Vehicle & Pedestrian Safety
FOCUS Curriculum
Suicide Prevention
Kid's Safety
Home & Leisure Injury Prevention
Prevention of Assaults & Homicide
Elder's Safety |
Injury Prevention Team members come from all areas of
Alaska. Some have professional concerns that link them to specific safety
issues, while others are concerned citizens. Each team uses injury hospitalization and death data to target problems and design
interventions. Some members of the team are staff researchers and injury
epidemiologists, others have professional concerns that link them to specific
safety issues and some are concerned volunteers from the community.
Our organization is one
of two fully accredited International Safe Communities (ISC) in the US, and
our approach to injury prevention is modeled after the ISC, which is
organized under the World Health Organization. The AIPC has used this
model to help develop our own definition of the needs of a healthy community:
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Comprehensive prevention
programs that address multiple causes of injury.
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Collaboration by every
sector of the community: religious, education, government, medical,
business, and individuals.
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Special outreach efforts
to those people most at risk for injuries, including elders, workers, and
adolescents.
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Ongoing injury data
gathering and evaluation programs.
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Members who demonstrate
long-term commitments to community safety and health.
We were also one
of the first communities to join the US Department of Transportation
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Safe Communities program
and we work with a number of international, national, state
and local partners to develop and implement new injury prevention programs.
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